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Putta Socca In It

My flies on my favourite jeans died! It didn’t stop me wearing them though – I just had to be creative with longer tops :)

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I bet you’re sick of either seeing socca ALL OVER the blog world right now, or seeing crappy titles that incorporate the word ‘socca’ into them..right? :) Wellll, if that’s the case – what’s one more right?

I’ve seen socca about loads, and kept thinking ‘I’ll do that tomorrow’ – then I realised that ACTUALLY, I had socca a few months back, before it was cool :p Remember my chickpea flour pancakes? Well, that’s just socca izntit! Anyway, so the intense desire to make socca hit again last night, so this morning, I made sure that MAKE SOCCA IS WHAT I DID.

*that’s actually water and tomato puree, but blood sounds more interesting.

Mix mix mix, bang into the oven at 160 for 45mins. Hmm...I didn’t grease the dish, and I don’t think my socca liked it, not one bit. In fact, when it first came out, I almost threw it away (even though FREYA DOESN”T SHARE FOOD [except replace ‘share’ with ‘waste’, and you have a) a crap Friends reference, and b) a joke gone terribly wrong). I was gonna take the socca into uni for lunch, thinking I could slice it like a pizza and I’d look really cool, but after scraping it out of the dish, it looked like this:

Mangled mess, much?

I was miffed at Attempt #1, so I decided to do Attempt #2, except stick to what I knew would work – frying. This time, I did the same weight + liquid ratio, but put in agave, cinnamon and vanilla :)

Uuumm….success?

They sure didn’t look like that last time I made them…but at this point, I was starvinmarvin for breakfast, was running late & needed to leave, and so didn’t give a toot anymore. To make it more appealing, I got out my leftover *curry* flavour soya mince, and stuck some inside, rolled and ready:

Taaa DAAA!

I wrapped it up when it was still a little warm, and when I ate it at uni, I was kinda dreading what I’d find…but you know what? It was DELICIOUS! Very moist (sorry, to all you moist-word haters out there) and cakey-pancakey-wrap-y-yummy. I’m really not sure how it worked, or how it tasted nice, but it really truly did :) and now I badly want to make more socca, wrap some hummus or peanut butter up in it, and eat it like that :)New uni quick [non-bar] lunch – sorted!

In all that socca-madness though, I barely got time to enjoy my bowl of chocolate pudding oats:

Sick of seeing pictures of that same bowl yet? I hope not, cos I’m not sick of eating it :D

The cookie on top? Why, it’s a COOKIE BUTTON!

Gifted to me by Jess t’other week! They are SO delicious, and SO addictive – I can tell I’ll be eating them the same way I ate the Snackimals (which are all gone now :'() – every time I walk by them, I eat one. ‘aaah it’s only one, they’ll last for ages….’ or not.

Moving on:

As soon as I got home today, I was on a banana shaped mission! I’ve been saving these babies up for well over a week now -

Don’t we all love banana shots? Can I get a YES WE DO!

- cos my mum had a baking request and I had my eye on a recipe – Angela’srustic chocolate chip banana oat cake with a peanut butter banana glaze!! Try saying THAT fast three times over with a mouthful of cookie buttons :P The banarmaramas were so darn ripe they were furry on the inside – I would’ve given my right eye to have frozen them for some Green Monsters :'( I’m so generous to have sacraficed them.

To cut a long baking story short, the cake was made:

The glaze was packed:

And my mum, stepdad, and their friends will be very happy campers tomorrow when they get to eat it :)

Oh, and World’s Best Smoothie was consumed too, aka….

Banana Peanut Nutmeg Smoothie

1 frozen banana

a few leaves of light green cabbage

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2+ tsp vanilla

1/4-1/2 tsp nutmeg

15g peanut flour

1/2 tsp xanthan gum

1/2 tsp agave/maple/etc

1/2 c. milk of choice

Blend thoroughly and enjoy the thick, nutmeggy goodness :D

If there was natural light out/I had a lightbox/my kitchen didn’t have such yellow lighting/I could use my camera better, you’d have a far more glorious picture. But as it is, none of that stuff came true, I still suck – for the most part – at phototoggleraffy, so that’s the only photos youz is gonna get! Sorry :p

Shame about the jeans…I hate it when a favourite pair comes to the end of its natural life. I try to patch/fix them up to prolong their lifespan. Why oh why is is so difficult to find great fitting jeans?! Or is it just me?

I can’t remember my last total kitchen fail, ’cause I’m not very experimental and just stick to recipes ;-) I remember making Mama Peas delicious Peanut Butter Cookies, but instead of coming out as pretty cookies the cookies had kinda merged together so I ended up with a cookie-slab…not really a fail though, because they were still ueber-yummy.

Hahahaha my favorite jeans died last winter!! I keep meaning to take them to get fixed…but I am lazy. And I can’t wear them with long shirts because they’re uber low-rise to begin with, which are the only types of jeans that fit my butt properly. Oy. Such whiny girl issues up in here.

I still haven’t made socca, though it’s been on my to-make list for MONTHS!!

yayyyy cookie buttons!! love those things. they’re a bit of a tradition around our house at christmas time. and yes, i am the same way. at least one every time i’m in the kitchen :P i still haven’t tried the peanut butter ones though!
This socca stuff is everywhere!! I didn’t realize chickpea flour was that prevalent. I’ve never seen it!

Like most people who have commented, socca is next on my list too! I just need to find some chickpea flour…

and I LOVE bananas like that – so perfect for baking and to put in oats! my mum always eats them way before they get to that stage though as she thinks that they’ll end up wasted! I might put a note in our fruit bowl telling her to leave them alone ;-)

I’m intrigued by socca – I’ll be trying it once I’ve sourced some chickpea flour.
I have kitchen fails regularly. My most recent one was putting slightly too much garlic in my hummus. I’m still eating it … it just means that everyone around me has to put up with garlic breath :-)

I have chickpea flour and the plan was to make pancakes, but in the end I cooked them in the oven and with less water, they went more like scones or something. So I am still plucking up the courage (I am rubbish at pancakes!)

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